Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of study sample groups.

	Control Group (n = 20)	Intervention Group (n = 20)	p
	M ± SD	M ± SD
Age	46.80 ± 8.11	44.00 ± 8.05	0.28
Height (cm)	174.95 ± 8.43	176.00 ± 7.59	0.68
Weight (kg)	76.80 ± 12.53	75.95 ± 14.70	0.85
BMI	25.01 ± 3.32	24.39 ± 3.77	0.59
PSL 1	7.31 ± 1.07	7.55 ± 0.76	0.42

¹ PSL: perceived stress level based on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).